Word: hearstly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...
...customers might lead to the fermenting of the un-American ideas. What, then, can a Rhodes Scholar do when he returns to the U. S. after three years at Oxford? Practically nothing-if the words of Congressman Fred Albert Britten of Illinois and the editorials of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers are carried to a logical conclusion...
Last week Mr. Hearst's Washington Herald seized Mr. Britten's speech with a cry of joy, and spread the Rhodes Scholarship paragraph in extra big and extra black type as a text for an editorial which covered the entire top-half of a page...
...Hearst himself has been accused of using his papers to exert improper influence upon the foreign relations of the U. S. In February, President Coolidge made a speech criticizing but not naming certain newspapers. The speech was taken to be a rebuke to Mr. Hearst for having published fake Mexican "documents."' Last week the Hearst editorial had the effrontery to link that same Coolidge speech with Britten Anglophobia, implying that both were directed at the New York Times, New York World, Baltimore...
...incumbent administration of Mayor Thompson, State's Attorney Crowe, Governor Len Small, plus Frank L. Smith who is again running for the seat in the U. S. Senate in which he was not permitted to sit. The "better element" and all the Chicago newspapers (except the two Hearst papers) say the Thompson-Crowe-Small-Smith faction is vile, vicious, responsible for Chicago's maladies. But, curiously enough, the maligned fellows have a habit of winning elections. It does not matter that, in 1924, Mr. Crowe called his present ally, Mayor Thompson, "the worst political derelict pestering Chicago...